COMN 2500 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Premier Election Solutions, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Sociotechnical System
23 Jul 2016
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Critical information studies considers the way in which culture and information are regulated, hence their relationship to commerce, creativity, science, technology, politics, and other human affairs. In early 2003 an enterprising cyber snoop found a collection of memos from employees of diebold election systems, inc. that had been left exposed on an internet server. That person downloaded the memos and found a rich array of information that indicts the quality and security of the electronic voting machines that diebold rented to states and counties across the united states. Several critics, academics, and students then posted copies of the memos on web sites since the memos were essential to public debate about the effectiveness, fairness, and security of the american electoral system. Diebold then fought back, since those memos are copyrighted. Authorship: an author is the originator of the material and immaterial form of song, book, painting, etc. Marxist believe it as something that"s false or misleading because its mystifying.
